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Derwood... you make a good point. Consequences are important and parents who can't teach their children that there are consequences to their actions (other than violence) are lazy.
Stick to your guns. If you say you will take away their privileges (ie Nintendo or TV) do it. Don't make idle threats and don't make threats you can't possible follow though with (if you do that again you will never watch TV again! Kind of hard to enforce).
I also agree that a week is a week. There is no time off for good behaviour.
Of course for many parents Nintendo and TV are very good babysitting tools. Once the kid is ensconced the parent is free to do what they want.
Parents need to spend more time with their kids.
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